If you scan the history of Pickwick, some 10 miles south of Winona, nestled back in the hills on County Road 7, you’ll come across the name "Davis" numerous times. And today’s story includes a bit ...

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Anne V. Coates, who won an Oscar for editing “Lawrence of Arabia” and also cut “Becket,” “In the Line of Fire” and “Out of Sight,” will be feted with the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.’s Career ...

Two hundred years after Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers a fascinating collection of documents from a real-life Pickwick Club inspired by the book is to be auctioned 'Mr Pickwick speaks at the club'.

“There are very few moments in a man’s existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.” Yet there ...

Owen Paterson emerged from the weekly cabinet meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday looking pleased and clutching a little present. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, ...

MR. TONY WELLER, when Mr. Pickwick praised the intelligence of his son Samuel, expressed his pleasure at the compliment as something which reflected honor on himself. “I took,” he said, “ a great deal ...